The Minecraft alphabet
These are not a lookalike font. Each image is cropped from ascii.png, the texture Minecraft actually draws its interface text from, and scaled sixteen times with no smoothing, so the pixels stay exactly as hard as they are in game. The number under each letter is its advance width, which is how much room it takes on a sign.
Capital letters
Seven pixels tall, and all of them six pixels wide except I, which takes four.
Lowercase letters
Five pixels tall, with g, j, p, q and y dropping below the baseline. The narrow ones are i at two, l at three, t at four, f and k at five.
Numbers
All ten are the same size: five pixels of ink, six of advance.
Punctuation and symbols
The characters you can put on a sign or in a book without a resource pack.
![Minecraft letter ]](/images/minecraft/alphabet/u005d.png){kind=small}
Why the letters are different widths
Minecraft measures each glyph by trimming the blank columns on the right of its 8 by 8 cell and adding a single pixel of spacing. Most characters land on six pixels, which is why the font passes for monospaced until you look closely. Seven do not: i takes two, l three, t four, f and k five, and capital I four.
Those seven are the whole difference. The word Minecraft comes to 47 pixels rather than the 54 a six-pixel grid would give it, because the i, the f and the t each give a little back. Tools that space every letter equally produce text that is a few pixels too wide per word, which is exactly why their output will not sit flush against a real screenshot.
The rest of the alphabet
The 93 characters above are the ones worth a picture each. The full default font is 2,412 characters across three separate sheets: ascii.png for the basics, accented.png for the accented Latin that German, French, Spanish and Polish need, and nonlatin_european.png for Cyrillic and Greek. The generator draws from all three, so it can set a word in any of those alphabets.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many letters are in the Minecraft alphabet?
The pictures on this page cover the 93 characters you would actually write with: 26 capitals, 26 lowercase, 10 digits and 31 symbols. The full default font is much larger at 2,412 characters, because it also carries accented Latin for German, French, Spanish and Polish, plus Cyrillic and Greek, spread across three separate texture sheets.
Why is every letter a different width?
Minecraft measures each glyph by trimming the blank columns on the right of its cell and adding one pixel of spacing. Most letters come out at six pixels, so the font looks monospaced at a glance, but a handful do not: i takes two, l three, t four, and f, k and capital I take less than six as well. Those few exceptions are what fake Minecraft fonts get wrong, and they are why copied text never quite lines up with a screenshot.
Can I use these letter images?
Yes. Each one is a transparent PNG scaled 16 times from the game texture with no smoothing, so the pixels stay hard at any size you place them. They drop onto a thumbnail, a banner or a poster without a white box behind them.
How do I write a whole word instead of one letter?
Use the font generator, which lays the letters out with the game's own spacing and lets you pick colours, add the drop shadow and export the whole line as one transparent PNG. If you would rather type in Minecraft's font in your own software, the font is downloadable as a TTF.
Write a whole word, or take the font itself: